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... American and West Indian feas . Through this arrangement , in part fortuitous and in part the effect of defign , we are prefented with a number of the beft - con- ducted and fevereft actions recorded in hiftory . We behold , in an ...
... American and West Indian feas . Through this arrangement , in part fortuitous and in part the effect of defign , we are prefented with a number of the beft - con- ducted and fevereft actions recorded in hiftory . We behold , in an ...
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... American privateers . Some of thefe veffels were retaken ; but about fourteen rich fhips were carried entirely off . Thefe heavy loffes , which , in their nearer or more remote confe- quences , affected all orders of people , fpread , a ...
... American privateers . Some of thefe veffels were retaken ; but about fourteen rich fhips were carried entirely off . Thefe heavy loffes , which , in their nearer or more remote confe- quences , affected all orders of people , fpread , a ...
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... contributed largely to relieve the exigencies of the ftate . Of thefe , the Arch- bishop of Toledo afforded a fin- gular inftance , which in a war of another found the American General , Maxwell , at the head 12 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1781 .
... contributed largely to relieve the exigencies of the ftate . Of thefe , the Arch- bishop of Toledo afforded a fin- gular inftance , which in a war of another found the American General , Maxwell , at the head 12 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1781 .
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... America and the West Indies , in the pear 1780. State of the hoftile armies on the fide of New York , previous to , and at the arrival , of Gen. Sir Henry Clinton from the reduction of Charles Town . Short campaign in the Ferfies ...
... America and the West Indies , in the pear 1780. State of the hoftile armies on the fide of New York , previous to , and at the arrival , of Gen. Sir Henry Clinton from the reduction of Charles Town . Short campaign in the Ferfies ...
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... America , for the remainder of the cam- paign . Spanish fleet and army proceed to the Havannah ; and M. de Guichen returns from St. Domingo , with a convoy , to Europe . Great preparations made by the Americans for effectually co ...
... America , for the remainder of the cam- paign . Spanish fleet and army proceed to the Havannah ; and M. de Guichen returns from St. Domingo , with a convoy , to Europe . Great preparations made by the Americans for effectually co ...
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